Using the Verification and Validation Facility in CORE9

CORE 9 has the ability to allow the system engineering team to plan Test and Evaluation activities for the system design project. This capability resides in the Verification and Validation Facility and includes the “VerificationRequirement”, “VerificationEvent”, “TestProcedure”, “TestConfiguration”, and “Test Activity” classes. [more]

In a system design each leaf-level Function and Requirement is meant to be verified. This verification is captured by relating a “VerificationRequirement” to each Function and Requirement using the “verifies” relation (a VerificationRequirement verifies a Requirement/Function). The engineer may design a single VerificationRequirement to verify multiple leaf-level Requirements and Functions.

The system engineer may then organize the verification requirements into a “VerificationEvent”, one VerificationEvent may fulfill more than one VerificationRequirement. Typical verification events may include things like: Laboratory Test Events, Limited User Test Events, Integration Test Events, and many others as determined by the organization test and evaluation process.

The system engineer can also work with the test and evaluation team and capture the planning for VerificationEvent support by relating the VerificationEvent to an Organization responsible for the VerificationEvent and also identify the TestProcedure and Test Configuration to be employed during the VerificationEvent.

This schema organization allows the system design team to gain a complete, comprehensive traceability of leaf-level requirement verification and provide a thorough understanding of verification activities necessary to verify the system design.

For more information on verification and testing in CORE, please be sure to check out our webinar today at 12 ET (October 14, 2014). Missed the webinar? Find it in our archive.

About the Author

Ron Kratzke is a Principal Systems Engineer at Vitech. He is a retired United States Navy officer with over 20 years of engineering experience managing nuclear engineering and combat systems on surface ships. Ron was introduced to the systems engineering practice near the end of his naval career while conducting mission and capability analysis for the Navy staff. For the last 15 years he has worked as a systems engineer, supporting advanced systems development for a number of federal government agencies. He was introduced to CORE in 2007 and utilized CORE to manage system development tasks on three different projects in the five years before he joined Vitech. He is now a provider of professional services in GENESYS and CORE as well as a central part of the Vitech training team.

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